“Qadri was hailed as a hero in the conservative Islamic society after he gunned down Salman Taseer, the former governor of Punjab, in 2011. Taseer, an outspoken critic of Pakistan’s 1980s blasphemy laws…” We always hear that those Muslims who believe in jihad and Sharia are a tiny minority of extremists. Stories like this one give the lie to that claim.
“Pakistan tense after executing killer of blasphemy row ex-governor,” by Sajjad Malik and Zia Khan, DPA, February 29, 2016:
Islamabad (dpa) – Pakistan was tense Monday after hanging an ex-police guard who killed a former governor for opposing the country’s controversial blasphemy laws, officials said.
Mumtaz Qadri was hanged at a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad, jail official Ijaz Chaudhry said.
Hardline Sunni Tehreek group chief Sarwat Ijaz Qadri, not related to the hanged man, condemned the execution.
“The martyrdom (execution) of Qadri is a black day in the history of Pakistan,” he said in a statement.
He asked his workers to remain peaceful while announcing that a funeral prayer would be held Tuesday in Rawalpindi.
But the country braced for a possible backlash. Educational institutions were closed in Rawalpindi, while the city’s main Murree Road, which links to it Islamabad, was blocked by the protestors.
Dozens of police in riot gear were in the main squares in Rawalpindi, while army soldiers were deployed in key locations in Islamabad.
Extra police and paramilitary troops were deployed across Punjab province, of which Rawalpindi is a part, and in the southern city of Karachi, which is a stronghold of the Sunni Tehreek, police said.
“The situation is under control but fuel stations at some places are closed in the city. We have increased police patrols,” police official Ijaz Panwar told dpa by phone from Karachi.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement political party, which dominates Karachi, cancelled its workers’ convention, the party said in a statement.
Protesters clashed with police in some parts of the eastern city of Lahore, capital of Punjab. The government-run Metro bus service there was briefly suspended, police spokeswoman Nabila Ghazanfar said.
“We have reports of some minor injuries to protestors but now the situation is normal. Police are on high alert to deal with any disturbance,” she said.
Qadri was hailed as a hero in the conservative Islamic society after he gunned down Salman Taseer, the former governor of Punjab, in 2011.
Taseer, an outspoken critic of Pakistan’s 1980s blasphemy laws, which impose the death penalty in some cases, had met Christian woman Asia Bibi in jail after she was arrested on charges of insulting the prophet Mohammad….

mortimer says
Vigilante Murder of Apostates Authorized by Al Azhar University Fatwa Department
Vigilante murder is normative Islam, rather than an aberration. Vigilante murder of apostates is authenticated by the fatwa department of Al Azhar University, Islam’s top Sharia authority.
Bukhari (84:64-65) – “Allah’s Apostle: ‘During the last days there will appear some young foolish people who will say the best words but their faith will not go beyond their throats (i.e. they will have no faith) and will go out from (leave) their religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, wherever you find them, kill them, for whoever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection.’”
Sharia law: The “Bill of Legal Punishments” says (p.12), “A person guilty of apostasy (man or woman) shall be put to death if repentance is not made within the period allowed which shall not exceed sixty days. Repentance of a person who commits apostasy more than twice shall not be accepted.
In 1992, Islamist militants gunned down Egyptian secularist Farag Foda. Before his death, he had been declared an apostate and enemy of Islam. During the trial of the murderers, Al Azhar scholar Muhammad al-Ghazali testified that when the state fails to punish apostates, somebody else has to do it.
No doctrine in Islam depends on a single Koranic verse, but on the Koran, hadiths, Sira and canonical rulings. What is ‘normative Islam’ is decided by the fatwa department at Al Azhar University, not by private opinion. In the 1992 murder of apostate Farag Foda, Al Azhar’s scholars argued that when the state fails to punish apostates, “somebody else has to do it.”
mortimer says
Western elites are unable to fathom that vigilantism is fully authorized by Islam’s top authorities. That is because they REFUSE to read up on political Islam’s teachings.
The shocking and abysmal lacuna of ignorance about Islam among Western elites amounts to culpable NEGLIGENCE which serves to embolden terrorist-murderers like Mumtaz Qadri.
Atheist7 says
It would be good is this article could get more press. It seems that we are looking at a lot of “confirmation bias” in that people who are convinced that Islam is a religion of peace do not want to hear any evidence that Islam is NOT a religion of peace.
Huck Folder says
Read “Locked On” by Tom Clancy.
A work of ‘fiction’ about ISI and PDF,
which is astoundingly real.
And he hasn’t been sued, so they
obviously can’t.
Then there’s “The Satanic Verses”,
which mohammedans drove to
best-seller status, with their idiocy.
Let’s see I-ah-told-ya khomeini is DEAD,
but Salman Rushdie is alive,
fatwa be damned.
I hope he died from an ulcer caused by
his vitriolic hatred of anything unislamic.
And to all you mohammedans reading this:
Where is your PRECIOUS ‘allah’,
sock-puppet of mo?
Doesn’t the failure of the fatuous fatwa,
and the absolute absence of allah
give you pause for thought?
How do you like your dose of
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE?
Absence of allah advances apostasy.
Jerry says
It’s scary to think that we have millions of muslims in our nation that believe this is the way to go, severely punish those who offend islam’s vile god and fake prophet. But that’s because they are deluded by their faith. These kinds of punishments should be reserved for real crimes, not hurt feelings over religious fairy tales. Gods and demons are a dime-a-dozen. I don’t value islam’s anymore than any other. Every time we self-censor for islam we promote unreason and bigotry. If we don’t make a stand now for rationality and reason the world will once again slip into a dark age where superstition and perverted clerics dominate us all. When muslims mass-murdered our people 15 years ago it wasn’t for a noble cause, it was for bigotry and hatred grounded in religious delusion. I’m sick of hearing that most muslims are “moderate.” Both moderates and terrorists are cooking the same meal, one stokes the flames while the others stir the pot. And the result? WE DIE. There’s nothing moderate about it.
Islam is an incitement to violence. Every self-respecting neighborhood should ban it.
Jerry says
It seems astonishing to me when I stop and think of it, in some muslim countries I could be put to death for what I just said. Is that the kind of world we want?
Mark Swan says
No Jerry it absolutely is not any kind of world any sane person should want.
خَليف says
We should then wonder why he was executed –
1 – in attempt to convince west they have a lawful system?
( Muslims can do anything in the cause of jihad – they have no moral foundation )
or
2 – a show of power by new ruler to discourage someone from trying to knock him off?
Although I have met many wonderful pakies, ( mostly non Muslim ) Pakistan is the most perverted of countries n the known universe.
mortimer says
Pakistan is in the midst of a civil war between modernists and traditional Salafite jihadists.
Each side wins a round and then the other side takes revenge…and on and on.
Mark Swan says
Pakistan Has Nuclear Weapons…there’s a good chance that Jihads’ will gain control of the one thing they should never get.
Jay Boo says
Ben Affleck chased down the paparazzi and insisted that they take a photo of tears streaming down his face over the execution.
Angemon says
The country, eh? Now, I’m no fancy-schmancy expert with a University degree in Islamic Studies or something like that, but it seems to me that the so-called “tiny minority of extremists” might not be so tiny after all – how many and how spread do they have to be in order to be called “mainstream”?
No fear says
Blasphemy…..a victimless crime.
Mark Swan says
Unless You are the Blasphemer in Pakistan…the actual victim of a law that is a crime.
sidney penny says
Freedom oF Speech-in Pakistan.
Even some lawyers support and cheered for Mumtaz Qadri.
Mark Steyn in Australia made a standing-room-only appearance on stage in Sydney. IPA (the organiser) has posted a few moments from the gala event in Melbourne Australia.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJwV8boFfF0
Published on Feb 24, 2016
Mark Steyn at the Institute of Public Affairs Gala Dinner – Melbourne.Australia
Steyn: On Freedom: Institute of Public Affairs
It is only 4 minutes and should be watch by everyone.
Wakeup says
At least they have offed the bastard, done gone irreversible, next.